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Offline HoorayHorace

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Your favourite bow build?
« on: December 06, 2014, 05:43:44 pm »
What is your favourite bow to make and shoot?  8)

I cant really comment, as I've only done two, but I'm a big fan of the English Longbow.

Also like the Hill Style longbows too  ;)

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Offline bushboy

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2014, 06:00:42 pm »
Don't think I've made two the same,always playing around with design.will let you know when i'm done!lol!really though I like them all so far but I would lean towards a holmgaaurd / mollegebet. Design for their speed.
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Offline bowmo

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2014, 06:06:43 pm »
All of them...after a 100 bows or so you really get the hang of it.  ::)
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Offline HoorayHorace

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2014, 06:07:21 pm »
I think the mollegebet looks pretty damn cool. A hard build?
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Offline missilemaster

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2014, 06:21:00 pm »
I'm digging D/R's lately. Smooth and fast,fast,fast! 8)
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2014, 06:33:45 pm »
Short bendy handle recurves.
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Offline ajbruggink

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2014, 06:46:40 pm »
I'm with you HoorayHorace, I've only made 2 successful bows but I like the ELB design, I like the way they shoot and the way they look. I'm hunting with a 72" long bow this year and it doesn't get in the way as much as I thought it would, I wouldn't hesitate to take a 74" bow hunting in my hardwood forest environment.
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Offline PatM

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2014, 06:59:01 pm »
Sinew backed static with spliced levers.
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Offline huisme

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2014, 07:08:01 pm »
Mollegabets, starting to like bendy R/D in them more than I like formed handles ;) not a particularly hard build, just don't go fast reducing the levers and make sure they're aligned.
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Offline Arrowind

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2014, 07:27:18 pm »
currently my favorite design is an R/D / Holmgaard 
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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2014, 07:43:08 pm »
Anything with character.  The more the better (to a point).  Like the challenge of finding a shooter in a twisted piece of wreckage.  The design can be anything that fits the stave for me.
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Offline Thunder

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2014, 07:55:21 pm »
An old school D bow is my favorite to make and shoot...simple but effective
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Offline DC

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2014, 08:04:59 pm »
My latest! What ever it may be.
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Offline JonW

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2014, 08:16:54 pm »
Short and backed with sinew.
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Offline Comancheria

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Re: Your favourite bow build?
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2014, 08:34:59 pm »
Well, at this point, my favorite bow would have to be a walking stick.  I brought home a branch from a downed Osage tree--a branch totally unsuitable for a bow--I have scraped off the bark and am seriously considering attacking the sapwood.  😊Meanwhile, I have temprarily laid aside the marked up a red oak board as too complex for my primitive brain.

But seriously, I THINK that when I attain some degree of proficiency, I am going to like building short, handy, unrecurved hunting bows.

Best regards,

Russ
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